With travel photos—and even everyday snapshots—location is almost always the defining factor that stokes visceral memory. For anyone walking around with an iPhone, location services are your best friend, and paired with Streetography (free on the iTunes Store), a new map-based photo-sharing app for iOS, you can drill down to the visual essence of a place through on-the-ground images.

The app’s interface places photos directly on a map, superimposed on defined boundaries of blocks, neighborhoods, and cities in a uniquely satisfying real-time and space perspective. Using only gestures, you can drill down from region to city to street and back out for an instant, ground-level view. Derived from a combination of its own research, third party, and government sources, Streetography’s maps assume an organic feel.

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PhotographyGraphics and Design SoftwareTravelSocial MediaSoftwareBest laptop bags for back-to-school, from the first day of class to finals weekMon, 15 Aug 2016 04:12:00 -0700Oscar RaymundoOscar Raymundo

Next to a laptop itself, a laptop bag is one of the most important purchases you can make come back-to-school time. A good laptop bag will help you take on the load of the new school year, while a not-so-good laptop bag could end up spilling out all your gear when you’re already running late to a final exam. Isn’t that ironic?

With so many laptop bags and backpacks to choose from, it would be an idle exercise to try to find the best laptop bag out there. Instead, we’d rather help you find the right laptop bag for any situation, from making an impression on the first day of class to surviving finals weeks unscathed.

The right laptop bag will not only protects your most-precious cargo (your laptop) and help you carry the rest of your back-to-school arsenal, but also offer unique features that put the plus in A+. Here are the best laptop bags for the ever-changing nature of a hectic school-year.

Bose introduced consumers to its first active noise-cancelling headphones way back in 2000. While its noise-cancelling tech is arguably second to none, Bose’s ANC cans have always been a wired affair. This changed in June with the introduction of the QuietComfort 35.

Priced at $350, Bose’s QuietComfort 35 are inarguably a premium set of headphones. Available in black or silver, the QC35 are housed entirely in nylon, leather, and a soft suede-like fabric. It’s a strange mix. The nylon feels cheap in the hand, but is nonetheless sturdy. The leather ear muffs are luxuriously cushioned and supple to the touch, but I fear for their long-term longevity in the hands of anyone unfamiliar with the use of leather conditioners. The faux suede, swathed over the cushioning on the underside of the QC35’s headband, is a stroke of thoughtful genius: pleasant to look at and soft to the touch, it had just enough of a tooth to keep the headphones planted on my freshly shaven head, even while I laid down to listen to some music.

Hello from Canmore, Alberta—a resort town nestled around the feet of Canada’s Rocky Mountains. While my partner works her way through a two-week wilderness first-aid course, I’ve been left to my own devices to wander the town, the woods, and the mountains that surround it on all sides. Given my surroundings, I don’t think that there’ll ever be a better time for us to talk about using your iPhone or iPad’s GPS to navigate.

Apps like Apple Maps, Navigon, and Google Maps are great solutions for finding your way around, provided your adventures don’t involve straying farther than marked roadways, gas stations, or coffee shops. But wander out Wi-Fi or cellular range, or go somewhere other than a known road or well-worn footpath, and they kind of suck. They’re all kinds of terrible at showing the sort of topographical information that you’d find useful on a hike.

Last month, Apple updated the MacBook, making its already-ultraportable laptop faster and giving it a longer-lasting battery. These improvements certainly made the MacBook even more ideal for travelers and people who are always on-the-go. Still sporting just one USB-C port, the new MacBook was built for a truly wireless world, according to Apple, so you won’t be bogged down by superfluous wiring.

With that travel-friendly mindset, we went on the hunt for the perfect backpack for taking your MacBook with you on all your summer adventures. Some of these backpacks are big enough to fit even a 17-inch MacBook Pro, but small enough to still be considered a carry-on should you happen to be boarding a plane to a far-off destination. Here are five of our favorite backpacks for bringing your MacBook along for the ride.